This is the place where we at ZDNet will stream -- live! -- our TechLines event, "Big Data Debunked -- Finding the Data Signals." We'll be broadcasting beginning at 4:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, October 4. (Mark your calendars -- that's this week!)

Our panel will include Nicholas Skytland of NASA, Michael Cavaretta of Ford, Katrina Montinola of Archimedes, Christine Twiford of T-Mobile and James Kobielus of IBM. ZDNet editor-in-chief Larry Dignan will moderate the discussion. (You can find out more about our TechLines series here.)

We will be broadcasting from the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space in New York, but we welcome participation wherever you are. To talk big data with us before, during and after the event, join the discussion on Twitter by using the hashtag #techlines.

Andrew Nusca is a former writer-editor for ZDNet and contributor to CNET. He is also the former editor of SmartPlanet, ZDNet's sister site about innovation. He writes about business, technology and design now but used to cover finance, fashion and culture. He was an intern at Money, Men's Vogue, Popular Mechanics and the New York Daily Ne...
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